A bullet, so much blood,
one heart stopped, another heart broken,
and someone’s lies leave a killer on the loose.

The agony of losing Mina, her other half/dearest friend, far eclipses Sophie’s pain from the wreck 2 years ago leading to painkiller addiction.

But no one believes Sophie’s clean now, and the police investigation has stalled because the truth isn’t being told. Her own questions about the case start to make the killer nervous – can she find the answers before he decides to make her the next victim?

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Book info: Far From You /Tess Sharpe. Disney Book Group, 2014. [author site]  [publisher site]   Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher through Edelweiss.

My book talk: At 14, death nearly took her body, leaving agonizing pain instead – drugs helped, too much. At 17, death took her beloved best friend and nearly took Sophie’s will to survive – she’s still off drugs, but not off the case – who killed Mina and why?

Everyone thinks Sophie took her along on a drug deal gone wrong, but it was Mina who detoured them to the remote woods where a gunman shot her and left Sophie heartbroken.

Despite testing clean, she’s forced into rehab again when drugs are found in her hoodie soaked with Mina’s blood. Her aunt believes Sophie, but her parents don’t and Mina’s family doesn’t either.

Mina’s internship at the newspaper, an old case of a missing teen girl, family ties that bind so tightly – something doesn’t add up in their small town.

If Sophie is going to have to live without her best friend/best everything, without drugs, and without her parents’ trust, she is not going to live without knowing who killed Mina and why… but the killer wants to make sure that she doesn’t live at all.

Told in alternating chapters dated a year ago and now, this strong debut novel is a mystery, a recovery story, and a love story, from start to finish.